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...majority of the dogs left at the gate or rescued from town shelters are black, Friedman says, and a look at the ranch website confirms that view. There are two unwanted black mutts that have been given the supermodel names Christy Brinkley and Bridgett Bardot by Friedman's cousin Nancy Parker-Simons, who with her husband runs the rescue operation. And there is Harley, a medium-sized black mutt whose mutilated ear from a shotgun blast tells a typically sad tale...
Shortly before noon on Friday, the jurors sent Judge Vincent M. Gaughan a note asking if they could deliberate into early evening, rather than ending about 5 p.m., perhaps to avoid working into Saturday. Then, one juror, a 30-something black man, asked to be excused saying a cousin had died Monday, his aunt and uncle had been hospitalized with pneumonia-related complications and his niece been diagnosed with cancer. Also, he said, "my mom is freaking out." The judge swiftly denied the man's request to be excused, dismissed the three alternates and snapped, "We've reached the point...
...complexity and the reluctance of the media to adjudicate factual disputes. No matter how thoroughly a charge may be discredited, enough taint remains to support an argument. The fundamental dishonesty is the suggestion that the issue, whatever it is, really matters. This is how swift-boating differs from its cousin McCarthyism, which deals in totally baseless charges that would be deeply serious if true. Swift-boating is McCarthyism lite. There is usually a little something to the accusation but not enough to make it legitimately matter...
...three years before the polio vaccine was available, I was a 33-month-old toddler. I took a nap with my 5-year-old cousin. When we woke up, she was fine, but I had a fever, was in terrific pain and could not walk. After rushing me to the hospital and seeing me go through two spinal taps, my parents heard the dreaded diagnosis: polio. I had paralysis in both legs, my back, right arm, diaphragm and lungs. I spent the next four months in the hospital until I was miraculously able to breathe on my own again. Ahead...
While one of their replacements was a former councillor, David P. Maher, the other was urban planner Sam Seidel, who bested Sullivan’s cousin, Edward, for the seat...